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Received a Press Release this Morning Offering Big Bucks For This Bob Dylan Poster December 29, 2015 - Rock 'N' Roll collector using press release to find owner of a rare Bob Dylan poster. $5,000 US reward. Avid boxing style rock concert poster collector, Andrew Hawley issued a North American wide press release this morning to advertise that he is on the hunt for a rare piece of early 60s music. The owner of Vintage Rock Posters, is looking for a 1963 Bob Dylan Newark Mosque Concert poster and is willing to pay big bucks for it. The concert was promoted by Moe Septee and Felix Gerstman who were early supporters of 1960s folk and rock acts on the East Coast. Dylan played the Newark Mosque on November 30th. According to Hawley, "This would be the first of two visits for Dylan to Newark in the 1960s. Two years later he would play the Newark Symphony Hall. Murray Posters of New York City printed the concert posters on thick cardboard, which measures approximately 14 x 22 inches…

When the massive Art Gallery of Hamilton
exhibition, are you experienced? ends its six-month run a few days after
New Years, Canadian artists Hadley + Maxwell will bewell on their way to owning the title of Canada’s most sought
after sculpting duo!The pair not only front-page
the Hamilton contemporary art exhibition, they are also in the process of
installing an outdoor sculpture in Toronto that will metamorphose the new
community called West
Don Lands. Hadley+Maxwell
consist of Toronto born 42-year old Hadley Howes and Montreal’s 49-year old
Maxwell Stephens. They currently live and work in Berlin, Germany and travel
the world collaborating on significant art pieces for public galleries,
institutions and well-heeled collectors. When
talking about themselves and their work, they eschew their birth names. They appear
to see themselves as the Hadley + Maxwell brand beca…

.The Growth of the Modern World Via The League of NationsA Review of Susan Pedersen's The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of EmpireBy KJ Mullins-TorontoHistory Today: For historian Susan Pedersen the League of Nations was a fascinating period of restructuring the Imperial World to Nation States while attempting to maintain old school ideals of how to govern the masses.
Pedersen was in Toronto this November as part of the shortlist for the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature. Just hours before she took the prize we sat down to discuss her book The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire. "I didn't write my book as a comment to current affairs, that is for the reader to draw on." Pedersen stresses that she is a true hardcore research historian and that her focus is on the world prior to 1945, not on the present day. Narrowing in on the mandate system Pedersen spent 10 years researching the League in depth. When asked what sh…

. Cotton,
Slavery and the CaribbeanAn
interview with Columbia University author/scholar Sven Beckert By
KJ Mullins-Toronto Trinidad Guardian: The
Caribbean played an important role in the growth of slavery in the Southern
United States, the Industrial Age and the booming cotton trade of the 18th
century. While cotton was never as large an industry in the Caribbean (as what
happened with sugar) the islands played an important role in the growth of the
United States and fostering the Industrial Revolution. Author
Sven Beckert explores this historical period in depth along with other aspects
of the cotton industry in his award winning Empire of Cotton: A Global
History. The Pulitzer Prize finalist wasin Toronto for the Cundill Prize took time to discuss how the slave
trade, growth of Island cotton plantations and the Caribbean slave revolts
influenced the booming slave trade within the southern United States.“I wanted to bring the economy of the United
States into the global context, to tr…

Like many other self-employed communicators in Toronto I have an exciting/active career. On one hand I am an active publicist working on many high profile projects including the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Toronto Caribbean Carnival and RBC Taylor Prize, Cundill Prize on the other, as a journalist I have one book published (The Sinking of the Mayflower) under my name and have ghost written two other books. I am the travel editor of Diver Magazine and I write travel stories, cultural stories and housing stories for a number of daily newspapers in Canada.I am a Huffington Post. For forty years I have been researching, watching and writing about the History of Diving in the Movies. In the pages of Diver Magazine and a variety of other publications, my articles have been titled Blood And Bubble movies. I have documented over 3,000 movies dating back to the 19th century that show actors/actresses diving or snorkeling on film. My website, with three Blogs and a photography section represent just four small aspects of my work. Always Busy. Never Bored. stephen@stephenweir.com.